I created this site to display
photos of the current and former bikes in my collection. My main interest is
Italian bikes from the 70's and 80's, but I've had a couple of American
bikes as well.

I took all the photos in my garage.
You can see and read about my photo setup (camera, lighting, backdrop, etc.)
here.

I am currently living in Lima, Peru, so
I'm not actively collecting anymore, but I plan to keep the site open for the foreseeable future. I still have
photos of a couple of bikes to add to
the gallery: a Cinelli Laser, a Colnago Carbitubo, a Colnago C40, and a Vitus
KAS Team Replica, so please check back periodically.

 I have a few
sets of photos I took of other people's bikes. I won't
include them in the main list of bikes below because they were never
part of my collection, but they are still worth a look-see, so...here
is the first one:

Anthony Nguyen's
spectacular 1985 Ciocc. The frame was restored in Italy by Giovanni Pelizzoli, Mr. Ciocc
himself. I restored some of the components, and I did the build as
well.
Click
here for see all the photos.

Posted June 24, 2012

WHAT'S NOT SO NEW


Splash Gallery of
HorrorDo you dislike Splash
handlebar tape as much as I do? If you do, and even if you
don't, check out this new fun
section.
(Posted September 10, 2010)


PAINT TOUCH-UP
TIPSAs part
of my Baby Blue 72 Colnago Super project, I put together a list of
touch-up tips. You can find them at the bottom of
this page. (Posted
July 30, 2008)

 As part of my Merckx Molteni Replicaproject, I created two pages aboutdrilling
and countersinking.
There's one page for the
chain ring I did, and another for the
brake levers.

 I polished quite a bit of parts for my De Rosa, so
I decided to put together aPOLISHING PAGEshowing
you how I polish aluminum alloy parts, here .


POLISHING SERVICES. For those of
you who don't have the time, space or inclination to do your own
polishing, I
will be glad to do it for you for a reasonable fee. Contact me
for a "polishing consultation."

 And of course there's the
PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS that you can find in
my photo setup.

I want to thank the following people for their
help in sourcing parts for this bike: Nick Zatezalo, Hon Lee, Phil Sieg and
Ken Denny. I hope I didn't forget to mention anybody - if I did, please
let me know.

I took photos of the
frameset
and close-ups of the bb shell
when I first got it in August 2005, so some of the experts on the C.R. list
could use them to help me confirm the date of the frame. The consensus is
that it could be as early as 1972, but not later than 1974. It was sold to
me as a 74, so that's what I'm calling it. My thanks to Tom Sanders, Jack
Gabus, Bob Hovey, John Jorgensen and Brian Baylis for their help in dating the
frame.

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The Masi was set up a little differently
by the time I sold it. You can see the eBay listing
here.